Hi everyone
Im wondering if I need to worry and would value advice from people in long term successful relationships - whether I don't need to worry or I should grab the bull by its horns so to speak and intervene before it's too late.
Since lockdown our sex life has dipped significantly. DP works away at the moment Monday - Friday and while there he's under huge pressure, working 13+ hours each day. He also has a few big frustrations at work as the company is going through a restructure. I'm WFH doing 10-12 hours each day and I'm also 5 months pregnant.
Our sex life was always good. Our relationship is great, we get on very well, we're engaged, we're very affectionate and tactile, emotionally close, speak for an hour minimum every evening he's away (he's staying in the only apartment they could find in the middle of nowhere with a male colleague), it's just our sex life is now once every week, whereas before all this it was a lot more. He's also struggled to ejaculate a few times - he blames being v stressed, partly because he's on call 24/7 at the moment.
I'm not really worried but at the back of my mind I am. Im scared it's a slippery slope that may not recover. But this may also be pregnancy hormones. I'm knackered too so it's really not that I'm missing sex, I just don't want our relationship to suffer long term.
Is this just what life is like and to be expected? Or would you worry in my position? All advice welcome and appreciated. Thank you.